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    • Black Space Week

    Celia Rose Gooding Visits the Afrofuturism Exhibit at Smithsonian

    In addition, the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds actress participated in a 'Your Place in Space' panel, in celebration for Black Space Week!

    This week, the White House National Space Council hosted "From Apollo to Artemis Generations: Celebrating our History and Charting our Future Forum," inviting leading policy makers, innovators, and artists, in celebration of Black Space Week, which highlights the career paths and contributions of Black people in the space enterprise and catalyzed systemic change to create an equitable space ecosystem culture.

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Celia Rose Gooding (Nyota Uhura) joined other luminaries for a panel discussion on "Your Place in Space," focusing on the significant contributions Black and Brown people have done for space enterprise.

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    Photo Credit: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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    (L-R) Dr. Sian Proctor (Astronaut, Board of Advisors of The Nichelle Nichols Foundation), Dr. Mae Jemison (Principal, 100 Year Starship Physician, Engineer, Entrepreneur and Former NASA Astronaut), and Celia Rose Gooding (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)

    Photo Credit: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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    Tony Frazier (Executive Vice President and General Manager, Public Sector Earth Intelligence, Maxar) and Celia Rose Gooding (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)

    Photo Credit: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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    (L-R): Tony Frazier (Executive Vice President and General Manager, Public Sector Earth Intelligence, Maxar), Celia Rose Gooding (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), Greg Robinson, (retired, NASA), Ezinne Uzo-Okoro (Assistant Director for Space Policy, OSTP)

    Photo Credit: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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    Tony Frazier (Executive Vice President and General Manager, Public Sector Earth Intelligence, Maxar) and Celia Rose Gooding (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)

    Photo Credit: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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    Dr. Sian Proctor (Astronaut, Board of Advisors of The Nichelle Nichols Foundation) and Celia Rose Gooding (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)

    Photo Credit: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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    Dr. Sian Proctor (Astronaut, Board of Advisors of The Nichelle Nichols Foundation) and Celia Rose Gooding (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) with the Black in Astro leadership team

    Photo Credit: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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    Dr. Sian Proctor (Astronaut, Board of Advisors of The Nichelle Nichols Foundation) and Celia Rose Gooding (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)

    Photo Credit: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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    Celia Rose Gooding (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)

    Photo Credit: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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    (L-R): Tony Frazier (Executive Vice President and General Manager, Public Sector Earth Intelligence, Maxar), Celia Rose Gooding (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), Greg Robinson, (retired, NASA), Ezinne Uzo-Okoro (Assistant Director for Space Policy, OSTP), and moderator Tahara Dawkins (Chief of Staff, National Space Council)

    Photo Credit: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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    (L-R) Dr. Sian Proctor (Astronaut, Board of Advisors of The Nichelle Nichols Foundation), Celia Rose Gooding (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), NASA Astronaut and U.S. Navy Captain Victor Glover, and Kenneth Wright (Senior Policy Analysis and Innovation Lead, the Office of Technology, Policy and Strategy, NASA)

    Photo Credit: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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    (L-R): Tony Frazier (Executive Vice President and General Manager, Public Sector Earth Intelligence, Maxar), Celia Rose Gooding (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), Greg Robinson, (retired, NASA), Ezinne Uzo-Okoro (Assistant Director for Space Policy, OSTP), and moderator Tahara Dawkins (Chief of Staff, National Space Council)

    Photo Credit: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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    Celia Rose Gooding and NASA Astronaut and U.S. Navy Captain Victor Glover, who will be the first Black astronaut to visit the moon

    Photo Credit: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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    Celia Rose Gooding visits the Afrofuturism Exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

    Photo Credit: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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    Celia Rose Gooding visits the Afrofuturism Exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

    Photo Credit: National Museum of African American History and Culture

    Celia Rose Gooding Visits the Afrofuturism Exhibit at Smithsonian

    In addition, the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds actress participated in a 'Your Place in Space' panel, in celebration for Black Space Week!

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, South Korea, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In addition, the series airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave in Canada and on SkyShowtime in the Nordics, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Central and Eastern Europe. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

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